International

Brussels: Belgium will be on high alert on Monday as the last surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, stands trial in Brussels over a shootout that led to his capture. Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national of Moroccan descent, is charged with “attempting to murder several police officers in a terrorist context” and of “carrying prohibited weapons in …

Washington: At least two persons were killed and 70 injured after an Amtrak passenger train collided with a freight train in South Carolina early on Sunday, officials said. Authorities confirmed that the two deaths occurred in the Amtrak train, not the freight train run by the CSX. A spokesman for the South Carolina Emergency Management Division said that injuries ranged …

Washington: The United States has made it clear that it expects Islamabad to take action against terrorists in sanctuaries inside Pakistan, a top American diplomat has said. Deputy Secretary of State John J Sullivan, who recently returned from a visit to Afghanistan, said the US also expects Pakistan to contribute to a lasting and enduring peace in the region. “That …

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is in China, has flagged the ambitious project One Road One Belt (OBOR) saying that there are doubts about it meeting global standards that are acceptable. May has also raised the issue of cybersecurity, while not giving any formal endorsement to the $900 billion New Silk Road being promoted aggressively by China. The …

London: British police on Thursday made a sixth arrest in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Indian- origin jeweller Ramniklal Jogiya, who was found dead in Leicester last week. The 74-year-old had gone missing as he walked home from work and was forced into a vehicle by masked men. “The 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnap …

Washington: A top American diplomat said that “sky is the limit” for India-US growing bilateral relationship as President Donald Trump is very fond of his country’s growing relationship with India. Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being aggressive in pursuing economic and administrative reforms, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told a select gathering high-achiever Indian-Americans that …

The Cyberabad Police today arrested Telugu actor Samrat Reddy on a complaint filed by his wife, 29-year-old K Harshitha Reddy, who accused him of theft and house trespass, police said. Reddy, who has acted in films like Panchakshari and Kittu Unnadu Jagratha, and his wife were living separately, following some marital dispute, they said. The actor’s wife lodged a complaint …

Washington: United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday address the Congress at the State of the Union 2018 in Washington where he batted for a legislation that would promote merit-based immigration, a move that would be beneficial to many Indian professionals. The President said that the proposed method will create a pathway for almost 1.8 million illegal immigrants who landed on …

Bienvenida (Spain): A Spanish village on Tuesday declared a day of mourning following the death of a retired farmer billed as “the world’s oldest man“, who passed away just over a month after turning 113. Francisco Nunez Olivera, who was 10 years old when World War I broke out, died on Monday in the village of Bienvenida in southwestern Spain …

Washington: US Senate Democrats blocked a controversial measure on Monday that would ban and criminalise abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, scuttling a longtime priority of conservatives in Congress. President Donald Trump described the failure of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act as “disappointing,” and urged senators to reconsider. The measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill in …